Basic Thermodynamics Prof. S. K. Som Department of Mechanical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur Lecture – 13 Thermodynamic Property Relations-I Good morning. In the last two classes, we discussed in detail, the concept of availability or exergy balance in both open and close system. We should have a hurried recapitulation of what we did. We are appreciated that availability that is the work potential of low grade energy is not conserved the way energy is conserved. There is always a destruction or reduction of the availability in any natural process. This was the outcome of the availability balance. It can be put in this way that if there is a closed system which executes a process from one initial state to another final state and in doing so, if it interacts with the surrounding in the form of heat and work energy then associated with that heat and work, there is an availability transfer to the system. If we equate or determine the availability at the final state and availability at the initial state, and if we find out what is the net availability transfer into the system, then we see that, what we have seen; rather, the availability at the final state is not equal to the availability at the initial state plus the net availability transferred in which it should be if it could have been conserved, but it equals to this thing; that means, the availability at the final state equals to the availability at the initial state plus the net availability transferred into the system minus the destruction of availability which equals to the temperature of a reference environment times the entropy change of the universe and it is termed as irreversibility. For a reversible process, this is 0 and the availability is conserved in the same way as the energy is conserved. Similarly, if we think of a control volume, in that case what is the difference between a control volume and a close system that is a mass inflow and outflow? Then we have to take balance of the energy coming in, associated with that
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